When messing with VMs, Disk wipe software, and multiple disks that are the same size, make sure you remove essential disks from the environment entirely.

I just wiped my main secondary disk in my desktop. Which had all my backups, ISOs, a few programs, and some useful crap. Thankfully the back ups just have to be redone. ISOs Im not crying over (just will be annoying in the future if I need to install any OSs), programs Ill just reinstall as I need. Useful crap most I think can be found on the interwebs. I think Ill be torrenting tonight...

7/6/2011 4:01:22 PM

i had a similar experience a few months ago. definitely an easy way to ruin your day

7/6/2011 4:14:38 PM

hello tech talk i store backups on disks attached to the same machine i'm making backups for in case anything ever happens to ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i get it now

7/6/2011 4:28:17 PM

^ Ya I know. I need to move it to an off box disk. The project Im working on is working toward this. But I need a disk to back up a disk.

I just found I didnt lose as much as I thought. Already found some backups I had on CDs from ages ago of some files I thought I completely lost. Rest is being downloaded now.

7/6/2011 4:54:21 PM

lol - I too have felt this pain

7/6/2011 5:10:46 PM